This exciting online event will provide an opportunity for our community of researchers, funders, collaborators and external stakeholders to celebrate the NIHR GOSH BRC's research activities and successes from across the last two years.

The event will include research stories and successes from across the BRC, including from some of our early career researches, and will touch on future strategic direction of the themes. It was also showcase some of our patient and public involvement and engagement activities and highlight how the BRC plays a vital role in GOSH as a research hospital.

Programme

Please see below the outline programme for the showcase. A link to join the webinar will be provided in due course to those registered to attend the online event.

1.30 - 1.35pm - Welcome

Mr Mat Shaw, CEO Great Ormond Street Hospital

1.35 - 1.50pm - GOSH Biomedical Research Centre

Professor Thomas Voit, GOSH BRC Director - "GOSH Biomedical Research Centre: Successes and Future Direction"

1.50 - 2.20pm - BRC Theme: Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine

Professor Paolo De Coppi, BRC Deputy Theme Lead - “Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine theme overview”

Professor Silvia Schievano, Professor of Biomedical Engineering - “GOSH springs for craniofacial surgery”

Dr Conor McCann, Senior Research Fellow and BRC Junior Faculty Co-Lead - “Advancing stem cell therapies for Hirschsprung Disease”

2.20 - 2.25pm - Break

2.25 - 2.45pm - Research hospital - Career Development

Ms Deepti Chugh, Research Physiotherapist - “TBC”

Ms Fan Iek Cheng, Pharmacist and BRC Junior Faculty Member - “Personalising medicine for children using pharmacometrics models”

Dr Jennie Chandler, BRC Catalyst Fellow - “Renal rescue: how to better treat kidney disease”

2.45 - 3.15pm - BRC Theme - Genes, Stem and Cellular Therapies

Professor Paul Gissen, BRC Theme Lead - “Genes, stem and cellular therapies theme overview”

Professor Claire Booth, BRC Deputy Theme Lead - “TBC”

Dr Georgia Santilli, Associate Professor and BRC Junior Faculty Member - “Hematopoietic stem cell gene therapy for the treatment of Primary Immunodeficiency”

3.15 - 3.30pm - Break

3.30 - 4.05pm - BRC Theme - Genomics and Systems Medicine

Professor Lyn Chitty, BRC Theme Lead - “Genomics and systems medicine theme overview”

Mr Theodoros Xenakis, Research Fellow - “Fighting childhood disease: a cell by cell approach”

Dr Amy McTague, Clinician Scientist Fellow and BRC Junior Faculty Co-Lead - "Epilepsy in children: bedside to bench and back again”

4.05 - 4.25pm - Research Hospital – Applied Child Health Informatics

Professor Neil Sebire - “Applied child health informatics overview”

Dr Maria Peppa, Data Scientist and BRC Junior Faculty Member - “Rare disease cohorts in administrative data”

4.25 - 4.30pm - Break

4.30 - 5.00pm - BRC Theme - Advancing Novel Therapies

Professor Francesco Muntoni, BRC Theme Lead - “Advancing novel therapies theme overview”

Professor Helen Cross, BRC Deputy Theme Lead - “Novel therapies for childhood epilepsies”

Dr Virginie Mariot, Research Associate - “AAV based therapy for cardiomyopathies”

5.00 - 5.25pm - Research Hospital : COVID-19

Professor Judy Breuer, Professor of Virology - “TBC”

Dr Giovanni Giobbe, Research Associate and BRC Junior Faculty Member - “SARS-CoV-2 infection and replication in human gastric organoids”

Ms Helen Ashton, Advanced Nurse Practitioner - “TBC”

5.25pm - Prize giving – A Moment of Research 2021

Professor Ros Smyth, UCL Institute of Child Health Director

5.30pm - Closing Remarks

Professor Ros Smyth, UCL Institute of Child Health Director

Sign-up now

Sign up now by registering via Eventbrite to secure your place and to ensure you receive details of the event closer to the time. A link to join the webinar will be provided in due course.

Accessibility

We aim to make our events as inclusive as possible so if you have any accessibility requirements or enquiries please contact the NIHR GOSH BRC, brc@gosh.nhs.uk If you could contact us allowing for as much time as possible before the event we will be able to ensure where required the appropriate measures are taken.